VATLY is the name of a cosmic ray laboratory located in Ha Noi (Viet Nam) in the premises of the Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST), an institute of the Vietnam Atomic Energy Commission (VAEC) headed by Dr Vo Van Thuan.
VATLY means "physics" in vietnamese but stands also for "Vietnam Auger Training LaboratorY", an acronym that summarizes its main features.
Vietnam underlines our determination to play a role - however modest it may be - in the development of fundamental research in the country and in the national effort to fight the heavy brain drain that Vietnam is suffering.
Auger, for the Pierre Auger Observatory that studies cosmic rays at extreme energies and of which a first site is currently under completion in Argentina, defines the frame in which, and the aim toward which, we are working. Presently observers in the Auger Collaboration, we hope to gain sufficient knowledge and expertise to become full members in a not too distant future.
Training is the main purpose of VATLY, training through research of young physicists from undergraduate to postdoc levels, requiring the establishment of close relations with the vietnamese universities and physics institutes.
And finally Laboratory describes precisely what we are trying to build, with what this implies in terms of scientific environment, facilities and instrumentation.
MEMBERSHIP
Pham Ngoc Diep, Pham Ngoc Dong, Dinh Lam Anh Huyen, Pham Thi Tuyet Nhung, Pierre Darriulat, Nguyen Thi Thao, Dang Quang Thieu and Vo Van Thuan.
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